Suspenders.



LP; HUDSON & PJW. MALLY.

SUSPENDBRS.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 26,1908

Patented May 30, 1911.

= STATES PAENT OFFICE.

nnwm. 1 HUDSON. or DES ntomns, IOWA, Ann FREDERICK w.. MALLY, or eannlson,

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Application filed. December 26, 1908. Serial Ito. 469,217.

Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented May 30,

To all whom it'a'noy cgncem:

Be it known that we, EDWIN P. Hunson,

" a citizen of the United States of America,

- penders, of which the fol owing is a specifisuch manner moved or replaced relative to its support independent of-the other.

of straps at the same a1 flsuspender web.

and resident of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, and FREDERICK \V. MALLY, a citizen .of the United Sta'tes of America, and resident of Garrison, Nacogdoches county, Texas,

have invented certain Im rovements in Suscation.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting trousers and drawers, or two garments of similarform,

7 simultaneously by the same suspenders. 15'

I rovide improved means for supporting a A further object of this invention is to plurality of Suspender straps conjunctively on the front ends of suspended webs, in that eitherof said straps may be moved. longitudinally, or laterally, or re- A further object of this invention is to provide means vfor-supporting a plurality.

titude on a single A' further bjectfof this invention is to provide improved means for conjunctively supporting a pluralityof straps on a single suspender web.- 7

Our nvent on consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of e lements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in 1 our claims and illustrated by the accom- 3 f 3-.-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 1s an edge elevation of a modified form of supporting means.

Fig. 5 is an edge view of a further modified Fig. 6 is an edge form of supporting means. view ofa further modified form) ofsupporting means.

In the construction of the device as illustrated in Figs. 1. 2 and 3, the numeral 10 designates an end loop formed in the front portion of a shoulder strap or elastic web of suspenders in. a common and well known manner." A clip 11 is provided and preferably is formed of a single piece of metal bent at its center and flattened and formed I with a slot 12 transversely of its folded end, adapted to admit and slide in the loop10, and also formed with oppositely extending hooks 1 3, 14 in its ends. The folded and slotted portion of the clip 11 preferabl-y'is materially wider than the end'portions with the hooks. A double stud 15 (of separable button type at each end) is mounted through and projects from opposite sides of the clip 11 adjacent the slot 12. -Tabs 16, 17 in this instance. two in number and formed with inand supported at their centers by the hooks 13, 1 1. The tabs 16, 17 are adapted forengagement with buttons on bifurcated garments, such as trousers, drawers and overalls,

of the hooks manually when desired. 1 A keeper 18 is. provided andbpreferabl'y is made of leather and provided with sockets or eyelets 19-, 20. (of separable button type) at each end. The keeper 18'is adapted to be mountedf around the lowerend of the clip 11 and across the openings of thehooks13, l4; and be secured to the clip by engagement of the sockets 19, 20 with the ends of the stud 15. The stud 15 and sockets may be of any desired construction so long as they embody the characteristics of separable buttons adapted to detachably connect the end. #of the keeper to the clip. It will be obse yed that either end of the keeper 18 may be detached or attached independently of the other to permit the removal or replacement of either of the of the other. It willbe observed, also, that either or both of the tabs can be removed laterally from the ho'ok,' or replaced thereon. when either and not both of the ends of the keeper is detached from the stud 15.

The clip 11 may be made of a single piece of sheet metal slotted across one end' and the hook 14 formed by cutting out and bending' a portion of. the metal in one direction while the hook 13"is formed by bending the surrounding portionof the metal 'in' the opposite direction. In such construction the hook 14: would be somewhat smallerthan the hook 13 but the bottoms of the hooks could be in the same horizontal plane when .the Suspender is in use.

The clip can'be made as shown in Fig. 45,

with its books 13 '14? at different altitudes the body ofthe'clip and hooks curved button-holes in each end, are mounted looselyand are free to --move longitudi- I nally in the hooks -and also to be-ili-fted out tabs 16, 17 independently "flat. at its center and vertical plane and open oppositely. in. such construction the complete device would be somewhat thinner than that first described.

The clip can be made as shown in Fig. 5, with its hooks 13 14 one above the other and opening in the same direction. By such construction the complete device would be somewhat thinner than that first described, and the double stud 15 and one ofthe' sockets could be dispensed with through the use of a headed stud 15 the head of which would confine one end of the keeper 18 and the opposite end of which would engage a socket 20" in the opposite end of the keeper.

The clip can be made. as shown in Fig. 6, with a double hook 14 adapted to support two tabs in the same horizontal plane. In this construction the arrangement of keeper, stud and socket could be the same as thatdescribed in connection with Fig. 5.

All the forms shown contemplate the use of identical tabs for either garment and we prefer to use. such tabs as are adapted to v engage buttons on each or either garment.

Either of the. clips may be made in sections pivoted together or the clips and books may be made separately and said hooks pivoted to the button stud, if desired.

We claim as our invention-- 1.-.A' clip formed of sheet metal double for engaging a suspen erw'e'b, a double butrovided with means formed on the clip and adapted to support two tabs, a keeper embracing said hooks, and button sockets on said keeper engaging said stud on opposite sides of the clip.

2. A clip formed with a plurality of supporting hooks adapted to support two separate tabs, and a cast-oft embracing said hooks and detachably connected at each end to, said clip.

3. Means for attaching suspenders to'a plurality of garments, comprising a clip, hooks on said clip, tabs loosely mounted in said hooks, a double button stud mounted through said clip, and a keeper formed with button sockets'oneach end adapted to eng'ageendportions of said stud, the body of the keeper embracing the hooks and tabs therein.

4. A clip formed of sheet metal doubled flat at its center and providedwith means for attachment to a suspender web, said clip formed with hooks, separatetabs slidably mounted in said hooks, and a flexible keeper embracing said hooks and tabs and detachably connected at its ends to and on opposite sides of said clip.

EDWIN PQHUDSON. FREDK." W. MALLY. Witnesses to Hudson:

S. C. SWEET, EAR-L M. SINCLAIR. Witnesses to 'Mally: C. C. JoHNsoN, A. F.-CADENHEAD. 

